Shingle-sawing machine



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. S. L.'BIT1TING.

SHINGLE SAWING MACHINE. p-295,722. Patented Mar. 25,1884.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL L. BITTING, or BIG onnnx, MISSISSIPPI.

SHINGLE-SAWING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,722, dated March 25, I884.

Application filed January 10,1984. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL L. BITTING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Big Creek, in the county of Calhoun and State of Mississippi, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shingle-Sawing Ma'- chines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the ac companying drawings.

My invention relates to shingle-machines; and its object is to saw shingles from the block,

the blocks being placed in boxes upon the periphery of a wheel and fed to a saw by the revolution of said wheel, as will be hereinafter particularly described.

In the annexed drawings, making. part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a side. elevation of a portion of any machine, and

Fig. 2 represents a plan View;

In the figures, A represents a rectangular frame of suitable dimensions and strength to adapt it to the character of work to be performed. Erected upon this frame are two supports, B B, one upon each side. These supports have extended basesd'cl, which are slotted, as seen at cc. A bolt passes through the frame and then through each of the slots. These bolts serve not only to secure the supports to the frame, but allow of their adjustment upon it.

G represents ashaft, which has its bearings in the supports B B. Upon this shaft are secured a circular saw, H, and two pulleys on drums, L and m.

D and I represent two shafts,which lie crosswise .of the frame, and which have their bearings in it. Upon the shaft D is secured a wheel which is octagonal in shape upon its periphery.

F F represent boxes, which are secured upon the periphery of the wheel, being four in number and equidistant from each other. These boxes are, divided at their bottoms to allow the saw to pass through them, and are secured upon the wheel at a slight angle to its axis. The boxes are intended to contain the blocks of wood to be sawed into shingles.

sawed the shingles drop beneath the wheel as the boxes are inverted by its revolution.

Land J represent drums upon the shafts G and I, which are connected by a belt, K. A small drum or pulley, m, on shaft G is conwhile the wheel is revolving, and after being nected to a drum, n, on shaft D by means of a belt, M. The drums are made of such size as that a fast motion will be given to the saw while a slow motion is imparted to the feedwheel containing the boxes.

It is evident that belts and drums may be dispensed with and that gear-wheels may be usedin lieu thereof. v

The slots in the base of the supports B B are for the purpose of adjusting the saw-shaft to or from its work, as the case may require.

The wheel may be made of any suitable size, and of course as many boxes may be used upon it as it will carry to properly feed the shingle-blocks to the saw.

, Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I The wheel E upon shaft D, having a series of divided boxes, F F, mounted upon its periphery and at a slightangle to its line of motion, in combination with a circular saw, H, duly mounted and adjustable, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL L. BITTING. 

